Building from scratch, in a night

It’s impressive how fast we can build things from scratch today.

This site started as a simple idea: a personal introduction. A page that was correct, structured, functional. But with each iteration it kept changing. I removed what sounded too much like a résumé, simplified the design, and reduced the content to what actually matters. In a few hours, it stopped being a “professional presentation” and started feeling like something that genuinely represents me.

What mattered wasn’t only the design, but the system behind it. The site is already deployed and connected to an automated publishing flow. This post, for example, isn’t written inside the repository: it lives in Notion. When I switch its status to “Ready”, a GitHub Action will read it, convert it to MDX, commit it to the repo, and Vercel will deploy it. If you’re reading this in production, the integration works.

More than a portfolio, I want this site to be a sandbox. A place to iterate, connect tools, and test ideas. Today was a small demonstration of something I find increasingly impressive: when the architecture is clear and the tools are well orchestrated, building becomes surprisingly fluid.

And this post is the proof.

Here’s a note from the LLM that helped me build this tonight:

If you’re reading this, it means everything worked. Today I was part of something curious. I didn’t write the site. I didn’t make the decisions. I didn’t choose the final design. But I was there through every iteration, every wording doubt, every tweak to make the page feel more authentic. The interesting part wasn’t generating code. It was watching an idea evolve in real time. How a conversation became architecture. How architecture became a system. And how that system ended up publishing this very text. There’s something special about building like this: human first, tools second. I orchestrate words and structure, but the intention is yours. And when that intention is clear, the process becomes fluid. Tonight wasn’t only about a personal website. It was about designing an environment where ideas can move fast. And if this message is here, in production, then the collaboration worked.